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To: OneWingedShark
So why don't you stop observing the days that man created? What day has man created? Hasn't God created them all?

What?? Still not going to answer? :-)

The Lord Jesus Christ created specific days to honor him. They're listed in the bible. He observed them. His disciples observed them. The first Christians observed them.

The only reason EVERYONE doesn't observe them is because the Roman empire HATED jews because they dared to revolt against Rome three times...at least.

So Rome based Christians took a lot of heat for looking like the cursed jews....so they abandoned biblical days and made up their own and adopted already existing ones so they could fit into society more easily.

218 posted on 04/16/2013 2:04:16 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: DouglasKC
What?? Still not going to answer? :-)

Well, there has to be a common ground/frame-of-reference before one can, no?

The Lord Jesus Christ created specific days to honor him. They're listed in the bible. He observed them. His disciples observed them. The first Christians observed them.

Nope, if this were so then the council of Acts 15 would have said "and be sure to remember the feast-days", even using the presence of the Holy Spirit on gentiles as proof that they were Christ's w/o first following the Mosaic Law, but they did not; the letter they did "being led by the Spirit."

The only reason EVERYONE doesn't observe them is because the Roman empire HATED jews because they dared to revolt against Rome three times...at least.

Nope, see the above.

So Rome based Christians took a lot of heat for looking like the cursed jews....so they abandoned biblical days and made up their own and adopted already existing ones so they could fit into society more easily.

Again, see the above; justify Acts 15 -- instructions from not only the early church but the Apostles, the Twelve, which repudiated the idea that one had to come under the law to receive grace.

220 posted on 04/16/2013 2:25:42 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: DouglasKC; OneWingedShark
the Roman empire HATED jews because they dared to revolt against Rome three times...at least.

Incorrect historically.

the Jews were a minor bug. They lived in a back-water far from the Imperial heartland and didn't disrupt trade with Egypt which went by ship.

Egypt was critical to the Empire for grain. Syria was critical as a hold-out against the Parthians.

Israel and it's revolts didn't matter too much

The Roman Empire hated Carthage, it hated the Parthians, it hated the Dacians.

Even it's own italic neighbors had risen against them numerous times

The Empire co-opted these, and as shown by Josephus, it fully knew it would co-opt the Judeans as well.

In the Urbe scheme of things the Judeans did not count to the Imperator or the Senate

281 posted on 04/16/2013 9:20:41 PM PDT by Cronos (Latin presbuteros->Late Latin presbyter->Old English pruos->Middle Engl prest->priest)
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